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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Well we made you work hard last week for our emerald and marine – anything but a card challenge but we had some gorgeous and very ingenious entries. We loved visiting all your blogs and Sarah (our guest designer) had lots of fun choosing her top 5. So here are last week’s top 5 passionista as chosen by Sarah:

**** Vix ****

**** Craftybunny ****

**** Sally H ****

**** Mervi ****

**** Tracy ****

Many congratulations ladies, you can now proudly display the top 5 passionista blinkie :)

Don’t forget to check back again on Friday for another fantastic tutorial in our Weekend Workshop.

Hello and a welcome to a new challenge here at Passion for ProMarkers. Thank you for all the lovely entries we had to last week's emerald and marine - anything but a card challenge. We will be back later to announce the lucky winner of the £10.00 voucher from Yellow Moon and also the top 5 passionista.
Onto this week's challenge, which has been chosen by our new guest designer Sam, and she would like us to use cool aqua and apricot as our colour scheme with a twist to use flowers (not too difficult this week!). We also have another new guest designer joining us this week (and they will both be with us for the month) Claire, she has had to sit this week out as she could not get the colour in time, but rest assured she will be here next week. I hope you will visit their blogs and give them a warm welcome

Our sponsor this week is Craft Obsessions and the lucky winner will receive a martha stewart cosmos punch worth £10.50. Also we thought you might like to know that craft obsessions currently has a special offer on ProMarkers at £1.50 each, but only for a limited time, so why not check out their online shop for details.

The DT have come up with some stunning samples again this week and thoroughly enjoyed using this colour scheme:

Sam (GDT)

Sarah

Sue

Caryn

Debbi

Denise

Gina

Helen

Ida

Maria

Michele

Natalie

We can't wait to see what gorgeous creations you come up with this week and look forward to visiting your blogs. Don't forget to check out the Weekend Workshop on Friday for another fantastic tutorial. Hugs, Gina, Denise & DT x x

Friday, 25 September 2009

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying your week. We have a great tutorial from Debbi this week. If you would like to have one of your tutorials here on PFP for everyone to see or would like to do one especially for us, we are opening it up to everyone, so if you feel like you have something to share please email me :)
We also have a big thank you to Sarah B and Caroline for being such fabulous guests. Look out on Tuesday for our next 2 guests :)

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We know how much storage for our pens is a problem, well Ida has found some fabulous storage at Camilla’s blog, Sue and myself (Gina) could not wait to have a go so here is my new storage

I must say it took me a while to do it and I have to thank Sue for the super idea of using Debbi’s PDF colour chart, but it is soooooo worth it, they look fabulous and stick out just enough to make them easy to get and put back.

Hugs Gina xxx

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I think almost everyone has at least one animal stamp in their collection and so we have decided to do a series of tutorials on colouring animals with promarkers. I thought I'd start with a horse as its a popular theme, especially with little girls. I love this image; Charlotte's Horse from Whiff of Joy, designed by Alison Acton. Although its a cartoony type image it's also realistic in form and shape.First things first, the image is stamped onto IQ Smooth 160 g/m2 with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. And I'll be using the following promarkers; Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa and Umber. (I have also used Vanilla for the mane and tail which is not pictured)

The first thing I do is to imagine where the lightest bits would be, this is the bit that most people fin the most difficult to imagine. The easiest way to do it is probably to do an image search of horses on the internet. This is one that I found - it might look awfully complicated - but if you almost close your eyes, so that you are looking through your eyelashes, it is easier to see where the light and dark areas are.

So I have started with the lightest areas and very roughly coloured these areas with Sandstone

Then I take a small section at a time and colour the remaining white bits with Cinnamon. Then blended using the Sandstone in small circular movements.

Next I take the Cocoa promarker and using small strokes, colour the darker areas. Then blend with Sandstone

The I repeat the above 2 steps (with the cinnamon, then cocoa) for each of the other small sections

I took the Umber promarker and added tiny shading to the darkest areas - the furthest away hind leg, and the back of the other three legs, and the shadow behind his jaw then blended with the Sandstone again.

Then I moved onto his mane and tail. I coloured the areas that I imagined would be hit by the light source with Vanilla.

Then used Sandstone to colour the rest of the mane and tail and blended with the Vanilla

I kept adding more layers of Sandstone and blending with Vanilla until i was happy with the effect

And this is the completed image made into a card

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Hope you have enjoyed this weeks workshop, don’t forget if you want to join in and put a tutorial on, please contact me here

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Oh my goodness, we’re so sorry for the delay in posting the top 5 for last week…….but we forgot lol! Debbi chose our theme of polka dots last week and we were inundated with gorgeous cards. Right without further ado our top 5 passionista, as chosen by Debbi are:

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Well it's Tuesday again so it must mean a new challenge here at passion for proMarkers. Before we explain this week's challenge we would like to thank you all for your gorgeous entries to last week's 'polka dots' challenge....you are obviously all dotty about dots because we had lots of fabulous entries. Don't forget to check back later to see who is the lucky winner of the pack of 5 proMarkers from Letraset and also to find out the top 5 passionista.
Onto this week's challenge, which has been chosen by our guest DT member Sarah B. We would like to see your creations using the colours Emerald and Marine but the twist this week is 'anything but a card'.....so get your thinking caps on.
Our generous sponsor this week is Yellow Moon/Baker Ross and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend on anything at there online shop, with the Halloween season coming up Yellow Moon/Baker Ross have a fantastic Halloween range for you to get creative with,
The design team have been working extra hard this week to create some amazing projects to inspire you:

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Passion for ProMarker Rules

There will be a weekly challenge at 9am (GMT) every Tuesday.

In order to qualify for the prize draw you MUST use Letraset markers (i.e. promarkers, aqua markers, tria or neon markers) on your creation and follow the specified theme. If you are a lucky winner you must contact us within 5 days of the announcement or another winner will be re-drawn.

You MUST also include the additional elements stated in the challenge (if any)

You MUST link the post on your blog featuring your creation directly not just a link to your blog. Only new work must be submitted - no back linking. All older entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize draw.

We are happy for you to combine our challenge with any others you wish to enter. You can enter as many times as you like (unless it is a special challenge and the limit will be stated in the post).

We welcome email entries. This is strictly for people without a personal blog. Send an email to promarkerchallenge@gmx.com.

Please add a link in your post to our challenge blog.

Hugs Denise, Gina and Design Team

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